Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette knows her party could be all but erased from the electoral map less than a decade after it made history when it shattered the province’s two-party rule.
With the 39-day election campaign in its final stretch, the incumbent premier also appeared to be winding down Thursday. After a round of morning interviews, her first public event that day was at a community centre in Montreal’s Pointe-aux-Trembles neighbourhood in the afternoon — hours after her opponents’ respective convoys had hit the road.
“Not at all,” Fréchette immediately answered when a journalist asked if she was running out of steam.